FIG Council

Shaping the Change

Vice President Mr. Andreas Drees, 2003-2006

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Career

Dr.-Ing.
Andreas Drees studied Geodesy in Bonn from 1974 to 1979. After a
two-years traineeship in civil service he set up as a licensed surveyor in
Münster in 1983 with working fields in cadastre and urban land
consolidation. Up to now he is manager of 7 urban land consolidation
boards.

1985 Drees
received a doctor's degree in the field of close range photogrammetry at
Bonn University, where he gives lectures on land management at current.

Since 1992
Drees is sworn property valuation expert. He is member of several local
valution boards and the upper board of the state of Northrhine-Westfalia,
too.

1993 Drees
was authorized from the State of Brandenburg to carry out rural land
consoldation measurements with full responsibility, since 2001 also in
Thuringia.

Since 1983
activities in the committees of BDVI, German Association of Public
Appointed Surveyors, and DVW, German Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation
and Land Management (in both member of the board for many years),
1987-1998 editor of the German surveying magazine FORUM.

Publications

Several publications about rural land consolidation in the states of
former GDR, GPS and photogrammetry in rural land consolidation
measurements, the combination of urban and rural land consolidation

Presentations

Several presentations on national and international events concerning
surveying education, valuation, urban and rural land consolidation;

Seminars for urban land consolidation for BDVI educational institution;

Lectures for students at Technical University Munich as guest lecturer;

Lectures about different aspects of land consolidation and land
management at Institute of Urban Development in Berlin;

International Federation of Surveyors, FIG, is a United Nations and World Bank recognized
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and covers the whole range of professional fields within the
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